| 单词 | occupied |
| 释义 | occupied (once / 94 pages) adj Something that's occupied is being used or is unavailable. If the sign on the restroom door says occupied, it means there's someone in there and you're just going to have to wait. If every seat on the subway is occupied, you'll have to stand, and if the apartment you were hoping to rent is occupied, you'll have to start your search all over again. When you're busy with work, you're occupied — you're engaged, or distracted by it. And when a country is occupied, it's been invaded and taken over by a foreign power — this last meaning was first used during World War II, referring to German-occupied France. WORD FAMILYoccupied: occupiedly, unoccupied+/occupancy: occupancies/occupant: occupants/occupation: occupational, occupations/occupational: occupationally/occupier: occupiers/occupy: occupancy, occupant, occupation, occupied, occupier, occupies, occupying, preoccupy/preoccupation: preoccupations/preoccupied: preoccupancy, preoccupiedly/preoccupy: preoccupation, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupying USAGE EXAMPLESSHILOH, West Bank — Through eight years of escalating criticism from the world’s most powerful leader, Israeli construction in these sacred, militarily occupied hills never stopped. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Israel’s main ally, for allowing the United Nations to censure his government over its controversial plans to build new settlements in the occupied West Bank. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Security Council resolution that the U.S. allowed to pass on Friday says that all of east Jerusalem is now occupied territory. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj held or filled or in use she keeps her time well occupied the wc is occupied Syn|Ant busy, engaged, in use (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line) filled(of time) taken up unoccupied not held or filled or in use freenot occupied or in use free, sparenot taken up by scheduled activities 2adj resided in; having tenants not all the occupied (or tenanted) apartments were well kept up Syn tenanted inhabited having inhabitants; lived in 3adj having one's attention or mind or energy engaged she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities Syn engaged busy actively or fully engaged or occupied 4adj seized and controlled as by military invasion the occupied countries of Europe Ant unoccupied not seized and controlled relinquishedthat has been withdrawn or retreated from |
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